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The filmmakers know how to be cheeky and over-the-top with a painfully familiar premise. The post ‘Mutiny’ Review: Jean-François Richet’s ‘Die Hard’ Rip-Off Hits Its Groove Too Late appeared first on Slant Magazine.

It’s fun to see that there are still tricks up its clammy, spume-flecked sleeve. The post ‘Insidious: Out of the Further’ Review: The Sixth Installment Finds New Tricks in Old Nightmares appeared first on Slant Magazine.

As in Laloux’s other films, the astonishingly bizarre rush of imagery does the heavy lifting. The post ‘Gandahar’ Review: René Laloux’s Cult Classic Is a Psychedelic Trip Beyond the Bounds of Reality appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Blaževičius’s film aims to unmask righteousness as a performance. The post ‘How to Divorce During the War’ Review: Andrius Blaževičius Melds the Personal and Political appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The film is akin to an adaptation of a Wikipedia page, with full frontal nudity. The post ‘Franz’ Review: Agnieszka Holland’s By-the-Book Biopic of Literary Genius Franz Kafka appeared first on Slant Magazine.

This cheery trifle amounts to little more than a collection of quirky character interactions. The post ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ Review: Ben Gregor’s Hardly Fruitful Enid Blyton Adaptation appeared first on Slant Magazine.

It Ends is a neatly crafted, if somewhat under-imagined, inquiry into a Twilight Zone scenario. The post ‘It Ends’ Review: Alex Ullom Turns a Road to Nowhere into an Existential Undertaking appeared first on Slant Magazine.

When in doubt, the film defaults to rehashing jokes that felt a lot fresher 20 years ago. The post ‘The Wrong Girls’ Review: Dylan Meyer’s Fun, If Half-Baked, Ode to the Stoner Comedy appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Dave Green’s film suggests a Coyote-Road Runner short by way of Michael Clayton. The post ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Review: An Anarchic, ‘Looney Tunes’-esque Assault on Capitalist Greed appeared first on Slant Magazine.

The lack of thrills might be easier to accept if the human drama had also yielded dividends. The post ‘The End of Oak Street’ Review: A Dinosaur Movie Possessed of an Extinction-Level Imagination appeared first on Slant Magazine.